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J. TAYLOR.

(METALLIC TRAY.

' No. 254,849l Patented Mar.14,1 ss2 Mil L A `C L E' L I, L L .L

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Inventor:

Witnesses L g da Unirse STATES PATENT. Ormea@ JOB TAYLOR, OF EAST HAMBURG, NEW YORK.

M ETA LLIC T'RAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters. Patent No. 254,849, dated March 14,' 1882. Application tiled November 9, 18ct. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOB TAYLOR, of East Hamburg, inthe county of Erie and State ot" New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements on a Metallic Tray; and I hereby declare that the following description of my said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying (lrawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specitication, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This present invention has general reference to metallic trays for holding fruit-cans while being dipped; and itconsists essentiallyin the combination therewith of a handle-frame to enable the trays being readily handled, and with means for holding down the cans, substantiallyas hereinafter tirst fullyset forth and described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, already referred to, and which serve to illustrate my said invention more fully, Figure l is a perspective view of a filled tray provided with my removable handle-frame. Fig. 2 is plan ot' the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation ot the hande-frame and holding-down device for the cans. Fig. 4 is an end elevation, and Fig. 5 a plan of the same.

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in all the figures. l

In these drawings, the letter A designates a metallic tray used in fruit, Snc., canning establishmentstordippingthecansintothe sirup and other baths. This tray is composed oi' a rectangular trame or band, A A' A A", horizontal slats C C', and transverse slats D, the said slats being formed into the shape ofthe letter U and riveted or otherwise secured to the band, and the cross-slats to thelongitudinal slats (at their points of intersection) in any well-known manner. These trays as now made have stationA ary or fixed handles, by which they are carried about, or no handles at all, and they are filled with a certain number of'. fruit-cans and then dipped into the sirop-bath. Owing to the fact that these cans arespecitically lighter than the sirup it is very difficult to submerge them in the sirup, (for nlling,) and to overcome this diflculty and to otherwise facilitate the bathing and handling of the cans, I provide this tray with a removable handleframe,as shown in the various figures, said handle-frame con with inwardly-projecting pins I, and the other two ot' said slats have each an aperture for the passage of a Ushaped rod, H, the parallel, or nearly parallel, members ot which pass from one side of the handleframe to the opposite side and engage with the projecting pins I in a manner as hereinafter to be referred to. The longitudinal slats F F ofthe handle-frame have crossslats L to connect and hold the said slats together, and at the same time to form a bottom for the tray, hereinbet'ore described, to rest upon. f

In operation the tray is filled with a certain number of cans, B, and then placed upon the handle-frame. Now, the U-shaped bar H is brought down upon the top of the said cans, and its nearly parallel members caused to engage 'the pins I, when the said tray will be loekedto the handle-frame, or vice versn, and when the said U-shaped bar kH will lock the cans to the tra-y, thereby preventing their iloat-v ing` when being dipped into liquid.

. By constructing the tray with its handleframe substantially in the manner described I derive advantages which cannot well be obtained by any other tray used for an analogous purpose, viz: By making" the handle-frame removable I am enabled to place a number otl the trays upon the trucks usually employed in canning establishments, which trucks are afterward placed in the so -.called processingboilers. I need, furthermore, but one .handleframe for a number ot' trays, and derive other obvious advantages.

It will now be readily observed that this tray is composed ot two principal partsviz., the tray proper and the frame comprising the slats F F', formed integral with the handles E E', cross-bars K, and the pivoted U-shaped locking-bar H-and that when reference is made to removable handles I do not wish to be understood as if these handles were removable IOO from the said'irame, but that they are reni-ov- It will now be also understood that, when.

speaking of removable locking-handles, by the term locking I do not wish to convey the idea that the handles are the instrumentality employed for locking the tray and frame together, but that they are a part only ot' the device consisting of the said handles, the U- shaped cross-bars H, and the pins on one of the handles, whereby the looking is accomplished in conjunction with the cans in the tray. Nor do I wish it to be understood thatthecross-bars H are removable in any other sense than that the tray and the frame of which said' crossbars form a part are separable devices, and that,`therefore, when the frame is removed or separated from the tray thc cross-bars H, forming a part of said frame, are also removed.

A Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as' new and desire to secure to me by Letters Patent ot' the United Statesl. A dippingtray having a removable handle-frame locked to the tray, substantially in the manner as and for the object specified.

2. A dipping-tray having a removable handle-frame and cross-bars over the cans to hold them down in said tray, as stated.

3. A dippingtray having a removable handle-frame,the handles of which are fixed to and form an integral part of said handle-frame, said handle-frame forming a separate frame for said tray, as stated.

4. Adipping-tray having handles attached to and forming a part of a frame, said tray being constructed with capability of heilig removed from said frame, as specitied.

5. A dipping-tray, in combination with a rcrnovable frame having handles, as stated.

6. In dipping-trays, the combination; with the trays, of a frame having a pair ot' handles andalockingdevice,substantially as described.

7. In dipping-trays, the combination, with the tray, of a frame having two handles and a U-shaped locking-bar for the cans and frame, substantially as described.

8. In dipping-trays, the combination, with said tray, of a handle-frame having two handles and a U-shaped locking-bar pivoted to one ot' said handles, as specified. l

9. The combination, with a dipping-tray, ot' a pair of cross-bars over the cans, said crossbars being constructed with capability of being locked to the handles for said tray, as stated.

l0. Thecombination,withthetray,ofaframe consisting ot' the bars F F', formed into the U-shaped handles E E', cross barsL, and locking-bars H, as stated.

ll. The combination,with thetray,ofaframe consisting of the bars F F', formed into the U -shaped handles E E', cross-bars L, and locking-bar H, said bar H consisting of a U shaped rod pivoted to one of said handles, as specified.

12. The combination, with the tray, ot'a frame consisting of the bars F F', handles E E', crossbars L, and U -shaped locking-bar H, said locking-bar being pivoted to the handle E', land adapted to engage pins I on the handle E, substantially as and for the object specified.

13. A dipping-tray having a frame provided with handles formed integral with the`longitudinal slats of said frame, as specified.

14. A dipping-tray having a frame provided with handles formed integral with the longitudinal slats of said frame, and with crossbars Il, having upwardly-pointing ends, as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

Jon TAYLOR.

Attest:

MICHAEL J. STARK; JOHN G. DUERR. 

